Are teenagers (especially girls) mistaking the awkwardness and discomfort that they feel towards their pubescent bodies for gender dysphoria?

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    Thanks for your comment and for sharing your backstory. I've been following Abagail Shrier's work, which partly inspired me to make this post to begin with. I do strongly believe that much of the increase in trans identification is social contagion.

    However, the trans phenomenon has so many dangerous drivers that self-harm, anorexia, or counter-culture movements like emo and punk didn't have. That schools and nonprofits are actually affirming these tendencies and behaviors. Especially after gay marriage was legalized, activists and non-profits had to shift their focus to a new cause, and that shift was largely towards trans issues.

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      You're getting defensive for no reason. I wasn't challenging what you said. I'm drawing a parallel between what we're seeing today with trans teens and what we saw 10 years ago. As in, "Teens are drawn to trans ideology as a manifestation of their anxiety and low self-esteem, much like anorexic teens of the past, or teens who committed self-harm, or teens drawn to emo or punk sub-culture. However, what makes this phenomenon so much different from those phenomena of yesteryear is the backing of powerful nonprofits like HRC and GLAAD as well as the medical establishment." As in, I was drawing a contrast with the trans movement, not anything you said. I'm sorry if you read it that way.